Eisenhower Square: Volume 1 (4MB PDF) Pre-Design Program Volume 2 (22MB PDF) Technical Analysis Documents Eisenhower Events of Note June 5-7, 2009 D-Day, The Invasion, 65th Anniversary National Commemoration, Eisenhower Presidential Library, Abilene , Kansas WEB EXCLUSIVE! fully researchable Eisenhower Presidential Papers by Johns Hopkins University Press  Read the full Legacy Report on line: Eisenhower Speeches Ike's public speaking online and searchable

PRESS RELEASE: March 31, 2009
FRANK GEHRY SELECTED TO DESIGN EISENHOWER NATIONAL MEMORIAL
First presidential memorial of the 21st century and only the seventh in U.S. history (more information on Frank Gehry works )

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The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission has completed the stage of planning and is currently in the stage of design services procurement for establishing an enduring memorial to Eisenhower in our Nation’s Capital. We have established this website to invite the American people to participate in this momentous effort to honor Ike’s lifetime of public service.

Our foremost goal is to converse with you on every aspect of the memorialization process. To enrich this discourse we continue to develop this website, seeking your ideas and providing information about Dwight Eisenhower’s life and legacy

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• Creating the National Interstate Highway system that we all depend on today
  
  
• Establishing the basic national defense policies that kept the Cold War cold and prevented nuclear war in the 20th Century
  
  
• Achieving passage of the first two Civil Rights Acts (1957 and 1960) since Reconstruction and guiding the desegregation of the nation’s capital, Washington, DC
  
  
• Forging an armistice that stopped combat in the Korean War
  
  
• Fostering the development of both military reconnaissance and civilian communications earth-orbiting satellites
  
  
• Bringing statehood to Alaska and Hawaii
  
  
• Bringing the St. Lawrence Seaway to completion
  
  
• Legislation that added over 10 million Americans to the Social Security system
  
  
• Creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to provide civilian leadership in exploration of space
  
  
• Creating what is now the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to greatly improve flying safety through control of all aircraft in our skies
  
  
• Creating the Department of Health Education and Welfare (later split into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services)